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Have a look at Telia's coverage map for Sweden. Notice all that green? That is where your phone will work. Population density in the north is lower than 2 humans per square kilometer. Are there maps like these for the US?

Leder mig osÃkt till Tage Danielssons saga fÃr barn Ãver 18 Ã¥r, Apan som tÃnkte i flera led .

10.7. How did the first Erlang compiler get written?

(or: how was Erlang bootstrapped?) In Joe's words: " First I designed an abstract machine to execute Erlang. This was called the JAM machine; JAM = Joe's Abstract Machine. "

" Then I wrote a compiler from Erlang to JAM and an emulator to see if the machine worked. Both these were written in prolog. "

" At the same time Mike Williams wrote a C emulator for the JAM. "

" Then I rewrote the erlang-to-jam compiler in Erlang and used the prolog compiler to compile it. The resultant object code was run in the C emulator. Then we threw away prolog. "

I believe there's program that lets you build with virtual Lego, but it's not a 'game' it's more of a modeling environment.

As mentioned above, for interactive building fun in a FPS environment, there's Blockland, or if you prefer, Blockland Mods. The former is the base game, with basic bricks; the latter contains lots of user-created additions.

For offline, more systematic virtual Lego, you can't go wrong with BlockCAD, which is just what it sounds like, and is perhaps what you're thinking of.

From Baby it's cold outside

VO: In the 1970s, this film was made, that showed what happened in Nasser's main prison in the '50s and '60s. It was based on the testimony of survivors. Torturers who had been trained by the CIA unleashed an orgy of violence against Muslim Brotherhood members accused of plotting to overthrow Nasser. At one point, Qutb was covered with animal fat and locked in a cell with dogs trained to attack humans. Inside the cell, he had a heart attack.

General FOUAD ALLAM, Interrogator Interior Ministry 1958-87 (speaking in Arabic; subtitled): Sayyed Qutb thought of himself as a superior sort of person. He saw himself as an important Islamist thinker and a strong character. And so on and so on. But at the end of the day, when he was in the military prison he gave us the exact details about his secret group and the orders he had given. The most dangerous was the order to flood the whole of the Nile delta and drown this corrupt land of infidels.

VO: Qutb survived, but the torture had a powerful radicalizing effect on his ideas. Up to this point, he had believed that the Western secular ideas simply created the selfishness and the isolation he had seen in the United States. But the torture, he believed, showed that this culture also unleashed the most brutal and barbarous aspects of human beings. Qutb began to have an apocalyptic vision of a disease that was spreading from the West throughout the world. He called it jahilliyah--a state of barbarous ignorance. What made it so terrifying and insidious was that people didn't realize that they were infected. They believed that they were free, and that their politicians were taking them forward to a new world. But in fact, they were regressing to a barbarous age.

I just unlocked this, all I had to do was run a Photoshop macro that rotated stuff around a bit. http://web.telia.com/~u48508900/esrb_cp.jpg

Sorry, I miss-clicked the Submit instead of Preview button. Here are some format corrections and clarifications of parent post:

Actually, Deep Blue was "Fast and Dumb" - it could indeed search fast and thus foresee many moves ahead ("into the future"), but it didn't have a good sense of which moves are worth checking out. If there were 10 moves available in the position, DB would generally check all of them out. Which meant that:

1. It wasted a lot of power calculating hopeless and downright stupid moves. That's especially evident when you consider the huge branching factor of exploring all moves in each position.
2. It would make mistakes if the position required calculating beyond 20-30 moves ahead - i.e. making a strategic move, as opposed to tactical (short range, immediate appearant profit) moves.

Contrary to popular opinion, DB wasn't the best chess computer that could be built at the time. It was the strongest chess playing hardware ever created up until that point. The software recieved relatively little attention, so if you'd swap the rather generic software engine DB used with a decent professional program on the same hardware, it would be deliver much stronger performance. In fact, you could substantially reduce the hardware and still get a stronger chess game with a better program. DB was very dumb, even more than the dumbest "fast searchers" professional level playing software.

It's pretty evident that fast searching has reached its limits. The branching factor makes "more muscle" (as per the famous "brute force" method) pretty useless. The current top programs are the "smart searchers": Hiarcs especially (the epitome of a very wise, very "slow" program), and also Shredder. In fact, even the formerly "fast and dumb" programs need to be smarter than they used to be to remain competitive at the top of the computer chess league. But, as mentioned above, none of them ever was as dumb as the fastest, dumbest program ever: Deep Blue.

Actually, Deep Blue was "Fast and Dumb" - it could indeed search fast and thus foresee many moves ahead ("into the future"), but it didn't have a good sense of which moves are worth checking out. If there are 10 moves available in the position, DB would generally check all of them out. Which meant that:

1. It wasted a lot of power calculating hopeless and downright stupid moves. That's especially evident when you consider the huge branching factor of exploring all moves in each position.
2. It would make mistakes if the position required calculating beyond 20-30 moves ahead - i.e. making a strategic move, as opposed to tactical (short range, immediate appearant profit) moves.
3. Contrary to popular opinion, DB wasn't the best chess computer that could be built at the time. It was the strongest chess playing hardware ever created (at that point). The software recieved very little attention, and if you'd swap the generic DB engine with a decent program on the same hardware, it would be much better. In fact, you could substantially reduce the hardware and still get a stronger chess game with a better program. DB was very dumb, even more than the dumbest "fast searchers" professional level playing software.

It's pretty evident that fast searching has reached its limits. The branching factor makes "more muscle" (as per the famous "brute force" method) pretty useless. The current top programs are the "smart searchers": Hiarcs especially (the epitome of a very wise, very "slow" program), and also Shredder. In fact, even the formerly "fast and dumb" programs need to be smarter than they used to be to remain competitive at the top of the computer chess league. But, as mentioned above, none of them ever was as dumb as the fastest, dumbest program ever: Deep Blue.

I'm an artist who paints a lot digitally. I tried to learn GIMPshop but there's too many thresholds. The interface could be slimmer, and some tools could be faster (I'm talking to YOU size 200 airbrush).
Here's a comparison of the interfaces: PS5.5 - GIMPshop
The load dialog crashed in the background and I don't even have everything open like in PS. GIMPshop is okay for basic image manipulation I guess; the functionality is certainly there, but the painting workflow isn't.

I'm an artist who paints a lot digitally. I tried to learn GIMPshop but there's too many thresholds. The interface could be slimmer, and some tools could be faster (I'm talking to YOU size 200 airbrush).
Here's a comparison of the interfaces: PS5.5 - GIMPshop
The load dialog crashed in the background and I don't even have everything open like in PS. GIMPshop is okay for basic image manipulation I guess; the functionality is certainly there, but the painting workflow isn't.

Here's what a simple Photoshop macro can do to their 'early childhood' decal. Is this the kind of 'content rating' imagery we want our kids to see?

Repulsive hidden pornography unlocked!*

*The macro (mod/patch) merely rearranges and unlocks features ALREADY IN THE CONTENT supplied by ESRB.

I demand a complete withdrawal of all ESRB decals, and any future decals they design should not be possible to transform into pornography, violent scenes, pentagrams or curse words.

I like the 2.6 kernel over the 2.4 kernel because I can play MP3s and Oggs without skips every time I refocus the window.

I have very good reasons to believe that MP3/Ogg skips are not a kernel problem, but a set up problem.

On the down side, I'm running Ubuntu 5.04 on a Sony S270 laptop. I use the 2.6.11 when I want sound to work at all and 2.6.10 when I want my touch pad to work right. I've tried a couple of custom compiles of 2.6.10 and 2.6.11 but haven't gotten either to work right yet.

I have a Sony VGN-FS215B with Ubuntu 5.04 running 2.6.12. I use the ALSA driver (Intel HDA) for my sound card, works ok. For making the touchpad work right I had to change xorg.conf to use the correct event device (/dev/input/event3 instead of /dev/psaux). 'cat /proc/bus/input/devices' should give you a clue for which is the right device for your touchpad (You need to enable CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV). For much more information on this have a look at http://web.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/ and for every other possible issues http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/sony.html.

Thanks for the reply!

5: Spacing fixed the blotches on the lines.

1: CTRL worked fine for colorpicking. However, I can't CTRL colorpick in the drawing window right after selecting a tool from the tool menu.

Made this: http://web.telia.com/~u48508900/gimpd.jpg (@ 50%)

Problems remaining:

2: When changing between the airbrush and paintbrush the program seem to forget what brush size I used. The functionality I'm after is something like this: CustomBrush(i) / BrushSettings ie. each custom brush has its own settings and can be saved. I couldn't find anything like this in GIMPshop but the interface is still a bit confusing to me. PS 5.5 don't have it either but the Airbrush and Paintbrush remembers what brush they used.

Very large (100 radius or more) airbrushes are very very slow, even with some spacing, and even when not drawing. Not sure what's up with that. In PS (5.5) I use size 500 brushes sometimes. Using large airbrushes is good for making changes on major element in the painting, such as fogging an arm, or increasing saturation in an area, or laying down a base color, or making a sky gradient smoother.


The docks and menus are HUGE, especially the color mixer. There's many large gray areas. Compare with the PS 5.5 GUI: http://web.telia.com/~u48508900/psgui.jpg (@ 50%)

Thanks for the reply!

5: Spacing fixed the blotches on the lines.

1: CTRL worked fine for colorpicking. However, I can't CTRL colorpick in the drawing window right after selecting a tool from the tool menu.

Made this: http://web.telia.com/~u48508900/gimpd.jpg (@ 50%)

Problems remaining:

2: When changing between the airbrush and paintbrush the program seem to forget what brush size I used. The functionality I'm after is something like this: CustomBrush(i) / BrushSettings ie. each custom brush has its own settings and can be saved. I couldn't find anything like this in GIMPshop but the interface is still a bit confusing to me. PS 5.5 don't have it either but the Airbrush and Paintbrush remembers what brush they used.

Very large (100 radius or more) airbrushes are very very slow, even with some spacing, and even when not drawing. Not sure what's up with that. In PS (5.5) I use size 500 brushes sometimes. Using large airbrushes is good for making changes on major element in the painting, such as fogging an arm, or increasing saturation in an area, or laying down a base color, or making a sky gradient smoother.


The docks and menus are HUGE, especially the color mixer. There's many large gray areas. Compare with the PS 5.5 GUI: http://web.telia.com/~u48508900/psgui.jpg (@ 50%)

Agreed, I'm from Sweden, say I want to use dvorak, I would also need ÅÄÖ.
So where is dvorak for me? Well, it's here, here and here. And that's only the first google hits, there might be more ones.
The first ones uses regular dvorak keys + grouped åäö + regular swedish "special keys"(letters,!"#%..) setup. I prefer the middle ones (sv_dvorak) thought since it uses english type special keys setup, which makes it far easier to type ()[]{} among others.

Elite 1-3 are pretty much free to download now. Apparently Ian Bell and David Braben had some sort of dispute regarding free distribution of Elite.

I played a lot of Elite II on the amiga. I've tried many times to get into Elite 1 but the inteface and GUI is to cumbersome to me. Is it worth it? I also downloaded Elite 3 (First Encounters) and it was kind of nice with the planet terrain and all, but somehow it didn't appeal to me, maybe it was too bloated.

I would wish to see something more simple and cute, like Spore appears to be. I really like the old elite ships because of the simplicity in design.

Utopia II - K240 (Amiga) was really nice too, speaking of space RTS.

Now I'll pimp my space projects. First out SCII:
http://www.itchstudios.com/psg/main.php?id=sce

Old and incomplete Elite clone, but I like the spaceship designs. Have more unscanned.
http://web.telia.com/~u48508900/temp/

For you guys who know swedish hereis an interview where the public radio calls Henrik Pontén (The APB lawyer in question previously) and ask him how they could do that. My favourite quote (Liberally translated to English): "We are currently very busy hunting pirates. I don't have time to check our webpage every day".

/Mauritz

Try opening up a shell and doing:

cat </proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state

a few times. That makes the battery applet sane on my dual-battery-capable Toshiba.

* The trackpad has hidden (and apparently unmodifiable) regions where one can use a scrollwheel-like area, and a couple of areas which function as "buttons" for back and forward in Firefox. Had I set these up myself, these would not be annoying; I could have chosen where they were located on the trackpad, if they were there at all, and possibly when I wanted them there.

This is probably from the newly-introduced synaptic driver; either disable it in xorg.conf and use the [IM]PS/2 driver to go back to FC2-style functionality, or RTFM and tune it the way you like.

Ur wrong! MMORPGs r0xx0rz my b0xxorx! I love pressing that attack icon and see the damage come up!
Screencap http://web.telia.com/~u48508900/wow.gif

Check out the grass foliage, just some years ago they couldn't do that stuff!!!1 The amazing gfx you can do nowdays with up to 16 colors and a staggering 200x160 resolution makes me wonder what's next!


Also, here's Doom III as it actually plays and looks, The 'real' Doom III is actually an illusion - HYPE, level 3 (contagious), can only be cast by larger developer entities.
btw. check out the bevels on the map!
Screencap http://web.telia.com/~u48508900/doom3.gif

Ur wrong! MMORPGs r0xx0rz my b0xxorx! I love pressing that attack icon and see the damage come up!
Screencap http://web.telia.com/~u48508900/wow.gif

Check out the grass foliage, just some years ago they couldn't do that stuff!!!1 The amazing gfx you can do nowdays with up to 16 colors and a staggering 200x160 resolution makes me wonder what's next!


Also, here's Doom III as it actually plays and looks, The 'real' Doom III is actually an illusion - HYPE, level 3 (contagious), can only be cast by larger developer entities.
btw. check out the bevels on the map!
Screencap http://web.telia.com/~u48508900/doom3.gif

I actually like the touchpad in my HP laptop. It's a good Synaptics pad which uses capacitance instead of pressure. The control panel has lots of knobs, including adjustable palm check which nicely prevents movement while typing. Theres also stuff like tap zones: I have it set for tap in the upper right corner for a right click, or in the upper left for maximize. I always tap; I never use the buttons. There's even a GPL'd driver for XOrg and XF86 that has all the features.

After a little practice, I can use it just as well as a mouse for controlling a cursor. It does suck for FPSes, though.

Yup, it's available in Linux too. FC3 even includes it out of the box, though if you have an ALPS touchpad (common in many laptops, including my Toshiba Satellite 3000), you need to rebuild the kernel with a patch applied from the synaptics package

is the touchpad a Synaptics or an ALPS Glidepoint? if so, there's an X driver for it...

http://w1.871.telia.com/~u87149908/eyes/

It is the "xset m A/B C" setting. In this post you can see there is even a better method... just not documented (how rare... programs lacking documentation...). If you mean about the synaptics touchpads, you need special software.

To specify in which folder the cache is stored, add the following code to your user.js file:

user_pref("browser.cache.disk.parent_directory", "C :\\Path To Cache");

Remember to use two backslashes for the path separators if you're using Windows, e.g. C:\\Path To Cache instead of C:\Path\Path To Cache.

All non black things are not ravens.

Oh yeah?

You can fix the mouse pad. I have an averatec also. Just go here.

Hi,

This may be slightly OT, but what experiences does people have with using DVD+RW for packet-writing under Linux? What drives are recommended with Linux?

What I would like to do is to use a DVD drive as a (large and fast) floppy disk - preferrable compatible with InCD and DirectCD for Windows. I have already tried to use my CD-RW burner with Peter Oesterlunds packet writing patch, but with mixed success.

I have read somewhere, that packet writing will not be added to the main line kernel before the drives support Mt. Rainier (EasyWrite), but I have still not seen any drives actually supporting this standard. Do they exist?

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10 years from now, the kiddies of tomorrow will be sick of Blue LEDs and they will be a fad long-dead. But what will replace them? I don't suppose that red/amber/green will make a triumphant comeback. I'm waiting for the kiddies to start modding their Blue LED gear with those fiery red-orange neon indicator lamps for that retro look. How they're going to generate 80VAC from a cordless mouse is anyone's guess, but for most plug-in-to-the-wall gear this should not be a problem. Personally, I'm waiting for the triumphant resurgence of the eerie "radioactive" glow of tuning-eye tubes in place of those *lovely* blue LED level meters.

It probably doesn't hurt that Sjeng takes advantage of multiple processors and GnuChess does not.

Ian

"Turn the rings to the maximum, and construct the word 'flax'."

Flax means either "luck" or "flap," as in "flap one's wings." I'm not familiar with the quote, but apparently it's from a 70s comic series called Bobo.

How about an explanation of the numbering system right from the horse's mouth
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from AMD's athlonXP site (doesnt' seem to be working right now)

web archive of AMD's site

It's likely wired so that each key generates an X/Y position on the ribbon cable, so it won't be useful by itself.

However, combining it with a project like this might be a possibility. I hope you like soldering (I do! :-)

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Create a WAP server

Shameless off-topic plug (though it's not for me in person, so I hope I get away with it): If you enjoy this, you might enjoy Super Metroid speedruns as well. Records: 38 minutes for pure speed, 58 minutes for speed with 100% items. Both by the same player, available here.

Mirrors: :38 :58

Require ZSNES and a Super Metroid ROM.

Shameless off-topic plug (though it's not for me in person, so I hope I get away with it): If you enjoy this, you might enjoy Super Metroid speedruns as well. Records: 38 minutes for pure speed, 58 minutes for speed with 100% items. Both by the same player, available here.

Mirrors: :38 :58

Require ZSNES and a Super Metroid ROM.

Here you can get buy it very cheap

HERE IS A FAST MIRROR

Here is the real mirror

Here is a MIRROR

Here is a Mirror

This is a fast mirror.

Mirror

Here is the mirror

YET ANOTHER MIRROR

Another mirror here up.
ANOTHER MIRROR

First Bill Gates Photoshop mod!

I wonder if that's a word. Anyway, the single largest provider in Sweden for Internet and telephone services, Telia, is the private remnant of the now-defunct national telecommunications company. They charge about 450 SEK (equivalent of about $60 to $55 USD with current rates) for a 512/368 kbit/sec ADSL account (no bandwidth cap). The "best" ISP for those that can get their service is Bredbandsbolaget who offer 10/9 or 8/1 mbit/sec depending on distance to the station for about the same price as Telia. But they are clueless bastards that don't know how to fix DHCP servers (from personal experience :)

Packet CD/DVD-RW support ie use your cd-rw like a floppy disk

Hmm, I didn't have any trouble accessing this myself... but seeing as others did, here's a mirror of the fullsize JPEG version.